Sain Uu Guys!

To start off, no transfers this week! They've been put off until the 10th of August so I'll give you the rundown next week! But I'm grateful for another week with Elder Verdusco and the Khailaast Branch. Tomorrow is Elder Verdusco's 20th birthday so that's cool I get to be apart of that- I think we'll go spread the Gospel! For next week would you all find his email address from my emails and send him a quick shout out? Thanks! Anyways, we'll be finding out about transfers on the 6th so we'll see what happens. When I was first in Mongolia people would always talk about the "best areas," but we all know that's a lie and so I'll be good with whatever happens.

Like you guys, we've had some crazy weather this week- marble sized hail one day and blazing hot the next! Elder Verdusco and I were up in a place called Suragch on Saturday, going between appointments and from the other end of the valley we hear a roar of hail on tin roofs, so we run for cover at a nearby well as hail starts coming down. But the break from the "heat" is way nice. After the hail stopped we headed over to our investigator Brother Nergui to find his house completely soaked! Thinking there would be nice weather all day he was re- roofing his baishin (brick house) and the storm hit while everything was off! So we spent a little while helping them seal up a room with a temporary styrofoam roof and a brick stove to hopefully dry things up before it got dark. This day we had planned to commit Nergui to follow the Word of Wisdom, and after getting the fire set up and drying everything off a bit we all sat around the stove and taught our lesson. I had been praying that day that he would feel the Spirit and accept our commitment. He accepted! It was a unique and very spiritual lesson and love seeing the excitement he has toward his own baptism (he was joking that his house was baptized that night!).

Other than that we had a two day open house at our Chingeltei Meetinghouse and spent most of the 2 days introducing people to the Church of Jesus Christ as we walked around the building. Our Church building is right above a main bus stop and so most people have seen it, but many don't think they're allowed in! So we had missionaries outside the Church inviting others to come and see and the rest of us inside being tour guides. People we're impressed at the contrast of our Church building from the rest of the outside world. We truly are blessed to have a place to go weekly that is dedicated to the Lord and His purposes. I'm so grateful for this Gospel, it stands in stark contrast to the rest of the world because it is truth from heaven, the pathway of happiness that leads to eternal life! Ta nar xairtai shuu!

Elder Jolley

Elder Verdusco and Elder Jolley